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In Brief… – for Aug. 27, 2009

August 27, 2009

U. S. herd liquidation begins: Struggling U. S. hog producers appear to be heeding pressure from lenders and have accelerated selling their sows to reduce herds and hopefully drive up hog and pork prices in 2010, livestock sources said Aug. 20. While the latest government data, which is two weeks old, shows sow liquidation still

Beef cattle, Hogs, News, Poultry

Investors Liking The Taste Of U. S. Meat Companies

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

“Even though we may be at the bottom of the recession, we still have to climb out of it.” – JIM ROBB Investors like the taste of meat again, bidding up shares of Tyson, Smithfield, Hormel and Sanderson Farms as the spring and summer cookout season is about to heat up. While some of these

Beef cattle, Dairy cattle, Hogs, Livestock

New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

By Bob Burgdorfer April 16, 2009

Bryan Karwal raises and sells 18,000 Canadianborn hogs a year on his Iowa farm, but a new food-labelling law designed to help consumers threatens that business because it has shut off key markets for the hogs. The law has also angered Canada and Mexico because they say it will hurt demand for their cattle and

Beef cattle, Country Crossroads, Livestock

Commodities Down But Food Prices Lag

By Lisa Baertlein March 26, 2009

“It’s not likely we’re going to be reducing prices in the near term.” – DOUGLAS CONANT, CAMPBELL CEO Commodity costs may be off their record highs and consumers may be struggling, but that doesn’t mean food manufacturers are about to slash prices. Many companies such as Campbell Soup Co. and Hormel Foods Corp. are still

Hogs, News

COOL choking off Manitoba hog exports

By Ron Friesen October 30, 2008

Manitoba’s hog exports are plummeting and pork producers are scrambling for slaughter space as fallout from the new U. S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) rule mounts. Slaughter hog shipments to the U. S. are down 75 per cent over the past three months because many American packers are refusing Canadian pigs until confusion over COOL subsides.

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Tag Archives Hormel Foods Corp.

In Brief… – for Aug. 27, 2009

Investors Liking The Taste Of U. S. Meat Companies

New Label Law Shakes Up U. S. Meat Industry

Commodities Down But Food Prices Lag

COOL choking off Manitoba hog exports

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